Slidez lets you create slick photo slideshows you can share with others or embed in your web site.

Just upload your photos using a simple batch-loader tool, then create a new "presentation" (essentially an album). You can drag and drop photos from your main library to the presentation and use the same method to re-order photos within it. Slidez gives you some basic options for tweaking your presentation, like choosing a background color and a location for image thumbnails.

Completed presentations can be e-mailed to others, embedded in a site or shared via an XML feed. It's all very slick and Flash-y; the slideshows themselves appear quite professional. I could envision a photographer using Slidez to show off samples of his/her work. Of course, you can do the same thing with Flickr and other online-slideshow tools. But Slidez is fast and easy, and it gets the job done with a minimum of hassle. —Rick Broida